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EDITORIAL: Why I Favor a Complete Ban on ‘Aquatic Deathtraps’ aka Swimming Pools
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| Mar. 3, 2013
| S.H. Blannelberry
Posted on 03/03/2013 11:56:16 AM PST by EXCH54FE
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The Citizens Commission to Save Lives is actively seeking new members. Our motto is simple: Save lives, by any means necessary. Our central objective is to save lives by getting the government to ban potentially dangerous inanimate objects (baseball bats, hammers, rope over four feet in length, high-speed scooters, etc.)
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posted on
03/03/2013 11:56:23 AM PST
by
EXCH54FE
To: EXCH54FE
how many Americans die in car wrecks every year
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posted on
03/03/2013 12:00:42 PM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: yldstrk
how many Americans die in car wrecks every year
Not as many as killed by bad prescriptions.
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posted on
03/03/2013 12:03:23 PM PST
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: EXCH54FE; zot; Interesting Times
Since people use their hands to choke other people to death; shall our ‘do anything to prevent’ folks push forward legislation that all new born children will have their hand amputated before being released from the hospital. and perhaps follow up legislation requiring the amputation of anyone with hands convicted of any crime, misdemeanor or traffic violation.
And without hands, hand gun crime would end.
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posted on
03/03/2013 12:08:02 PM PST
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: EXCH54FE
Life without taking the risk of getting killed isn’t worth living!!!
Stick your commission where the sun doesn’t shine!!!
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posted on
03/03/2013 12:08:54 PM PST
by
dalereed
To: EXCH54FE
I recall a similar article about 10 or so years ago.
It is amazing how many sober adults die in said pool.
It is understandable that many (not) sober adults die in said pool.
It is not at all amazing how many children drown but what is completely (Special Emphasis) are how many men, women, children and dogs die in a completely empty pool.
The strange thing is that cat deaths are never mentioned.
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posted on
03/03/2013 12:18:39 PM PST
by
jongaltsr
To: jongaltsr
I am concerned with deaths resulting from falls down stairs. I think all stairs should be banned.
To: dalereed
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posted on
03/03/2013 12:31:14 PM PST
by
freedomson
(Tagline comment removed by moderator)
To: dalereed
Relax! It’s just a joke!! I think the point is to illustrate the ridiculousness of gun control!
:-)
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posted on
03/03/2013 12:34:41 PM PST
by
surroundedbyblue
(Why am I both pro-life & pro-gun? Because both positions defend the innocent and protect the weak.)
To: freedomson
“Its satire.”
And it has a GREAT VIDEO!!!!!!
MOLON LABE, or is that BABE????
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posted on
03/03/2013 12:35:13 PM PST
by
EXCH54FE
(Hurricane 416 "ItÂ’s one thing to make a law, ItÂ’s another to enforce it.")
To: freedomson
Then label the damn thing as satire and I wou’t click on it!
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posted on
03/03/2013 12:37:43 PM PST
by
dalereed
To: EXCH54FE
Private pools are a luxury for the 1%. The rich unfairly use more than their fair share of our scarce water. It's not like it, you know, falls from the sky or something. And then they have the nerve to poison the water with chlorine!
It's time to OccupyPool!
-PJ
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posted on
03/03/2013 12:49:08 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: EXCH54FE
Just watched Hitchcock's film
Frenzy last night. The serial killer was known as the necktie murderer.
After watching this film, I must propose that we ban neckties immediately.
And then scary Hitchcock movies...
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posted on
03/03/2013 12:52:11 PM PST
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: dalereed
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posted on
03/03/2013 12:56:35 PM PST
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: EXCH54FE
Why don't you call yourselves “The Citizens Afraid of Life’’? For cryin’ out loud if you don't want a swimming pool, don't buy why one. Why do you feel it's your mission to decide for everyone else? I'm 56 years old and my generation grew up playing ‘’Cowboys and Indians’’, Dodge Ball, riding big Schwinn bicycles without helmets and eating breakfast cereal loaded with sugar and we're still here. For Gods sake we're raising a nation of pansies!
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posted on
03/03/2013 12:58:00 PM PST
by
jmacusa
(Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
To: EXCH54FE
He is exactly correct.
An excellent and well-known way to test one’s own bias, or to test bias in others, is to either substitute or reverse the key term of the argument and see how it plays. We see this occasionally on “man in the street” interviews before elections.
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posted on
03/03/2013 12:59:22 PM PST
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: dalereed
Guns.Com’s Title was an Editorial; so that is the way I posted it.
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posted on
03/03/2013 1:00:28 PM PST
by
EXCH54FE
(Hurricane 416 "ItÂ’s one thing to make a law, ItÂ’s another to enforce it.")
To: EXCH54FE
I especially can’t believe we allow people to have even more deadly ADTs: boats.
At least in a pool, even a poor swimmer stands a chance of reaching safety. But even a good swimmer 5 miles offshore after falling off a boat may not survive.
And to make it worse, we allow adults to take children into such dangerous situations.
If we can just save ONE life by banning pools deeper than one inch and banning the use of boats completely, it is worth it. /s
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posted on
03/03/2013 1:01:18 PM PST
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: EXCH54FE
You will be happy to know that Mayor Bloomberg has joined the cause by banning all pools and boats in NYC and is calling for a statewide ban. /s
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posted on
03/03/2013 1:04:45 PM PST
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: EXCH54FE
1) Nobody needs a pool with a capacity of more than 1,000 gallons. Your community pool is staffed with lifeguards who have received special training for emergencies. Do not take matters into your own hands. Close the Slip-and-Slide loophole.
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posted on
03/03/2013 1:07:50 PM PST
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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